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NEWS IN BRIEF
THURSDAY, NOV. 29, 2001
CAMPUS
KJHK to throw birthday bash tonight at the Bottleneck
KJHK 90.7 FM celebrates its 25th birthday tonight with its annual birthday party at the Bottleneck, 737 New Hampshire St., in collaboration with the House of Blues.
or Blues. The doors open at 8 p.m. The bands performing include Triangle, Ted Leo and the Pharmacists and The Dismemberment Plan. Throughout the evening, KJHK will be giving away CDs, T-shirts and posters.
Steven Yantis, Program Director of KJHK, said tickets for the event are $8 and can be purchased anytime before the event at the Bottleneck. Yantis encouraged people to listen to KJHK today because the station will be giving away free passes to the party.
STATE
Jeremy Clarkson
New director plans to restore Topeka Zoo's accreditation
TOPEKA — A 30-year employee of the Topeka Zoo has been hired as its director and has promised to restore the zoo's accreditation.
Mike Coker, who had been serving as acting director since June, beat out 23 other applicants from around the country.
"My agenda is to bring the zoo back to where it was," Coker said Tuesday.
Coker said he would continue working toward re-establishing the zoo's accreditation with the American Zoo and Aquarium Association.
In the next few years, Coker said, visitors will see a new orangutan exhibit, an elephant pool and a zoo education center.
Coker also said he planned to reestablish the zoo docents program, which was canceled by his predecessor, David Mask, who was fired in June. Docents volunteers give zoo tours and provide other services.
other services.
Last September, after repeated warnings, the AZA let the Topeka Zoo's accreditation lapse. The city has filed an appeal. If it is not approved, the city will have to reapply for accreditation.
NATION
DNA leads to conviction in murder, rape case from 1972
HOWELL, Mich. — DNA lifted from cigarette butts led to a man's conviction yesterday in the rape and murder of a young mother nearly 29 years ago.
Jerald L. Wingeart, 60, was found guilty of killing Dawn Lee Magyar, then 20, who was abducted from a shopping mall, raped and shot in the head and back. Wingeart faces a mandatory sentence of life in prison.
After Magyar disappeared, nearly 4,000 volunteers joined a search, but it wasn't until two months later that her frozen body was discovered in a forest by farmers.
A gun was found in a river in 1974, and two years later police found Magyar's wallet on a nearby riverbank, but there were few leads.
In the mid-1990s, as part of a review of unsolved police, police re-examined the case and focused on the gun. One of its owners told police he suspected Wingeart — who had been convicted of armed robbery and raping a blind university student — had taken it.
NATION&WORLD
Mystery surrounds Taliban's latest uprising in Afghanistan
The Associated Press
QALAI JANGHI FORTRESS, Afghanistan — Corpses with bound hands, dust mixed with dried blood, spent mortar rounds littering fields where horses grazed: No part of this massive fortress was left unstained by death in one of the most ferocious battles of the war on the Taliban.
the tahab.
In a field strew with about 50 bodies, an Associated Press photographer yesterday saw that some corpses had their arms tied with cloth — contrary to claims by a key Northern Alliance commander that none had been tied up.
Full details may never be known of the uprising by Taliban who were being held prisoner at Qalai Janghi fortress near the city of Mazar-e-Sharif or of the fierce assault that ended the rebellion. Red Cross workers yesterday began hauling bodies away, and with the remains likely went much of the evidence of what happened.
at happened.
The questions include how the prisoners — including Pakistaniis, Chechens, Arabs and other non-Afghans — got access to weapons.
and whether some prisoners were executed after northern alliance troops gained control or died in the battle.
of died in the battle. Nearly all the Taliban prisoners involved in the uprising were killed, alliance officials say — perhaps around 450 fighters, though the precise number was uncertain.
precise number was uncertain.
The uprising was put down with the help of U.S. airstrikes, U.S. special forces and other covert troops believed to be British. At the Pentagon yesterday, Adm. John Stufflebeem said American officials do not have a clear picture of what happened. "There's a lot of questions that obviously need to be asked or answers that need to be obtained as to how that came about, or how that can be prevented in the future."
What is known is that the uprising began on Sunday and lasted three days—another chapter in the bloody history of Mazar-e-Sharif, a city that has swapped hands repeatedly since 1997. It was the first major city to fall from Taliban control under the U.S.onslaught on Afghanistan aimed at rooting out Osama bin Laden and his terror network.
Choosing confession or solitude
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Supreme Court justices considered this prison scene: jailers going cell-to-cell with notepads asking inmates to confess past crimes or forfeit their prison privileges.
Kansas does that to sex offenders in rehabilitation, an inmate lawyer argued yesterday.
As part of therapy, rapists and other offenders must list all their past sex crimes, the information usable for fresh prosecutions. Those who refuse go into in maximum security.
"No TV? ... No recreation? No softball?" Justice Anthony M. Kennedy asked. "Isn't there a danger of inducing innocent people to confess?"
An appeals court ruled the practice unconstitutional. The Supreme Court may use the to determine how far the government can go to rehabilitate inmates without violating constitutional rights.
Kansas argues it is protecting the public because sex offenders have a high likelihood of repeating their crimes. The Bush administration and other states also want justices to use the case to extend prison authority.
No one has been prosecuted with information given to counselors. Kansas does not give prisoners immunity for shared information.
prisoners minority. The case turns on inmate Robert Lile's Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination. Lile has been in prison since 1983 for raping a young woman. He claims the sex was consensual.
When he was ordered to begin the program in 1994, Lile was told to sign papers admitting guilt in the crimes he was convicted of and to fill out a form that listed his sexual history, including names of any victims. Prison staff members use lie detector tests to check accuracy.
When Lile refused, his security classification changed, which means fewer visitors, no personal television, limited work and recreation opportunities and restrictions on what he can keep in his cell.
he can keep in his firm. Stepjne McAllister, the Kansas solicitor, said the program is limited now to those who commit sex crimes. Officials believe it would be constitutional to expand it.
be constitutional." If that happened, "every prisoner in Kansas could be told, 'Either confess ... or you're going to maximum security for the rest of your term.' I would be very troubled by that," Kennedy said.
Detective testifies that woman confessed to killing her kids
NATION
WHEATON, III. — A detective testified yesterday that a mother hospitalized with self-inflicted wounds admitted killing her three children and described how they gasped for air as she suffocated them with her bare hands.
Marilyn Lemak, 44, is on trial in the slaying of her children, Nicholas, 7, Emily, 6, and Thomas, 3. She could get the death penalty if convicted.
Cross said Lernak described in vivid detail how she drugged and suffocated the youngsters at her home in Naperville in 1999. The drugged children were hallucinating before she "put her hand over their mouths and pinched their noses to suffocate them," Cross testified.
Prosecutors contend the former surgical nurse killed in a fit of rage and jealousy over her failing marriage, then tried to kill herself with drugs and by slitting her wrists.
Defense attorney Joe Bugs told the jury in his opening statement Tuesday that Lemak's actions were those a distraught woman on medication and going into depression. Earlier yesterday, Dr.David Lemak testified how he rushed home after his wife called 911, and learned from an officer that his three children were dead.
Since the deaths, he has divorced his wife.
Eradication of syphilis nears as number of cases decreases
ATLANTA - Syphilis infections dropped to an all-time low in the United States last year, with fewer than 6.000 cases of the sexually transmitted disease reported nationwide, the government said yesterday.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said 5,979 cases were recorded last year,down nearly 10 percent from 1999 and 30 percent since the government announced a plan three years ago to eradicate syphilis.
The government wants to cut annual cases to fewer than 1,000 by 2005 and boost the number of syphilis-free counties to 90 percent from the current level of about 80 percent.
of about 80 per cent. Pockets of the disease remain, mostly in the South and among poor African Americans and Hispanic Americans. And infections are on the rise among gay and bisexual men. That concerns experts because they suspect it reflects more risky sexual behavior, which could lead to a rise in HIV infections.
Mother-to-child transmission is down more than half since 1997, and the rate among Blacks has dropped 40 percent.
Associated Press
ON THE RECORD
KU Men's and Women's Ultimate Frisbee Clubs will meet at 4:30 p.m.
ON CAMPUS
Ecumenical Christian Ministries (ECM) and ENIRONS will serve a vegetarian lunch from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. today in the ECM building located at 1204 Oread Ave, one block north of the Kansas Union. The lunch is prepared by student volunteers and non-vegetarians are welcome. Contact Thad Holcombe at 843-4333.
An 18-year-old KU student reported a theft at Robinson Gym between 3:10 and 3:45 p.m. Tuesday, the KU Public Safety Office said. A pair of blue jeans, tennis shoes, purple coat and four keys were stolen. The stolen items were valued at $101.
Two 18-year-old KU students reported a burglary and theft of $80 at their room in McColum Hall between 11:15 a.m. and 7:55 p.m. Tuesday, the KU Public Safety Office said.
Pre-Journalism Club will meet at 3:30 p.m. today on the third floor of Templin Residence Hall. Contact Julie Jantzer at ku_pre@hotmail.com or Janice Davis at 864-4768.
today at the Shenk Sports Complex at 23rd and Iowa streets. Contact Clay or Tony at 843-7099 or at claydefuku.edu.
Campus Crusade for Christ will meet at 8 tonight in 1004 Haworth. Contact John liff at 979-6488.
KU Karate Kobudo Club will have practice from 8:30 to 10:30 tonight in racquetball court No. 15 at Robinson Gymnasmus. Contact Hannah Reynolds at s312-3419.
KU Young Democrats will meet and hear from guest speaker Barbara Ballard at 8:30 tonight at the Walnut Room in the Kansas Union. Contact Nora Bielat at 393-1784.
Contributors to the Pacific West Cancer Fund has
selected the University of Kansas to receive a scholarship that is designed to assist students who have been diagnosed with cancer and are surviving. Interested students should contact the Office of Student Financial Aid (OSFA) and complete and submit the application to OSFA, 50 Strong Hall, no later than December 3.
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- December graduates with questions about repayment or consolidation of student loans should schedule an appointment with an Assistant Director in the Office of Student Financial Aid by calling 864-4700.
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